CATHOLIC BISHOP SOUNDS ALARM: Assisted Suicide Ideology Compared to Nazism

In a powerful pastoral letter, Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth, Rt Rev Philip Egan, has denounced assisted suicide, linking its ideology to Nazism. Warning against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, set for debate in November, Bishop Egan called it “gravely immoral” and “evil masquerading as kindness.” He emphasized that legalizing assisted suicide would pressure vulnerable individuals to end their lives, undermine palliative care, and compromise medical trust.

“Assisted suicide would place an unacceptable and immoral demand on medical staff, expecting them to become accessories to killing. It would undermine the trust we normally place in doctors, making us suspicious of their motives. “It would darken the atmosphere of medical wards that care for the elderly, and it would inexorably lead to euthanasia, the right to make another person die, when difficult cases need to be decided by consultants and relatives, or lawyers and the courts … It’s easy to imagine a future in which doctors advise patients to seek suicide rather than treatment.”

Bishop Egan joins Catholic leaders, including Cardinal Vincent Nichols and Archbishop Mark O’Toole, and Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby, in opposing assisted dying legislation. His letter urges parishioners to lobby MPs to vote against the bill, citing the devastating consequences of “crossing a line from which there’s no return.”